University of London MSc and Post Graduate Diploma Organisational Psychology Course

Do you need to build and maintain a base of professional knowledge in management and organizational systems?

Do you need a good grounding on organisational behaviour so that you can perform your role as a facilitator or consultant better?

Are you interested in social and psychological processes operating in organizations, and how these processes relate to organizational systems and structures?

Then consider the University of London MSc and Post Graduate Diploma Organisational Psychology course by distance learning.

Available in Singapore on a self study basis and guided by extensive high quality and purpose-written study materials by professors from the university, it is a least cost way to secure a prestigious qualification from the university at your own flexible timing right from the comforts of your home.

Many professionals need to update knowledge by focusing on particular subjects. As a result, some modules are also available on a stand-alone basis and on successful completion of each module you will receive a University of London certificate.

This is a modular self-study programme directly from the University of London but FNS will facilitate:

Connection with previous graduates of the course
Sharing & discussions before submitting assignments
Sharing additional research materials
Making meaning to practical situations encountered at work
Meeting with OB/OD/HRD practitioners
Building up a local pool of well qualified Organisational Behavioural practitioners in Singapore

Email: admin@fns.sg for details of the course.

Open Space Technology and World Cafe Workshop

When: 24 April 2009 Friday 8:30am to 6:00pm

Workshop Content:

Open Space Technology (OST)

What is Open Space Technology
FourPrinciples & One Law of OST
Roles in OST / When to use OST / When NOT to use OST
Theme Selection / Sending invitations
Opening the Space / Agenda Creation / Opening the Market Place
Capturing the Information / The News Gallery
Converging the Ideas / Action Planning
Success stories from OST / The Asian Experience
ClosingCircle & Feedback

The World Café (TWC)

What is The World Cafe
The World Cafe Journey
Questions underlying the World Cafe
Seven Principles of The World Cafe
When to use TWC / When not to use TWC
Success stories from TWC / The Asian Experience
ClosingCircle & Feedback

Register on line at: http://www.fns.sg

Forecast of Events

Here is a forecast of training and development activities, managed by Facilitators Network Singapore, in 2009:

14 Aug 2009

Flavors of Facilitation - Storytelling, Rapid Learning and Power Debriefing Workshop

Time: 830am-530pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge
Fee: S$240 (IAF Member) & S$340 (Non-IAF members) (register by 13Jun09)

7 Jul 2009

Power of Questions Workshop

Time: 830am-530pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge
Fee: S$240 (IAF Member) & S$340 (Non-IAF Member) (register by 6Jun09)

24-26 June 2009

Dynamic Facilitation Skills have been helping individuals and organizations address big issues. Using these skills, one person can assurea group of people to think together creatively and collaboratively and achieve win/win results...1st time in Singapore by Jim Rough...Creator of Dynamic Facilitation.

Jim Rough is a consultant, author, speaker and social innovator. He originated Dynamic Facilitation Skills and has been presenting public and private seminars on Dynamic Facilitation since 1990. Jim also originated the Wisdom Council, a new approach to transforming large systems of people. For over twenty years he has been a faculty member of the Creative Problem Solving Institute in Buffalo, N.Y. He is the author of the book, "Society's Breakthrough!: Releasing the Essential Wisdom and Virtue of All the People."

24 April 2009

Open Space Technology (OST) and The World Cafe (TWC) Workshop

Attend this completely hands-on workshop and understandthe Principles, Tools and Process for OST & TWC; discover how you can plan and facilitate using OST & TWC in a variety of situations or applications.

27-29 Apr'09
20-22 May'09

Foundational Facilitation Workshops (FFW)

This flagship workshop, under compressed time and dynamic simulated situation, is extremely hands-on. Participants will have to complete self-assessment questionnaires as pre-work and come prepared for immediate application and practice during the workshop. Throughout the three days participants will receive extensive feedback from peers and coaching from Certified Professional Facilitators on their performance as a facilitator.

14 March 2009

28th Singapore Facilitators' Forum - Journey to the Centre of Professional Facilitation

The certification of professional facilitators by the International Association of Facilitation (IAF) is based on a set of core competencies required for skilful facilitation. Join us on a discovery journey to find outhow you too can become a certified professional facilitator by learning from the experiences of those who have made it!

For details and to register on-line, please visit: http://www.fns.sg/

28th Singapore Facilitators' Forum

Journey to the Centre of Professional Facilitation

Date: 14 Mar 09, Saturday

Time: 8:30am – 1:00pm

Place: Focus Conference Room, #15-08, Sim Lim TOWERS, 10 Jalan Besar,
Singapore 208787 (This is NOT Sim Lim Square!)

For directions, please checkout the map of the venue:
http://sg.pagenation.com/sin/Sim%20Lim%20Tower_103.8545_1.3037.map

Rates

Normal registration 1 week before forum date or earlier

Full-time tertiary students S$5.00
Others : S$10

Rates After Registration Deadline

Full-time tertiary students : S$15
Others : S$15

If you are unable to register on-line (for genuine cases of technical
challenges encountered at website), please email our Forum
Administrator - Ms. Emily Ng at emilyng_fns@yahoo.com.sg for
assistance.

Fee is payable at the door. Once registered, the forum fee would be
payable regardless of actual attendance due to our venue booking &
catering commitment. Cancellation or withdrawal is not permitted. We
welcome replacement.

Agenda

8:30 am - Arrivals & Registration
9:00 am - Part 1 – The Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF)
Journey / CPF Competencies Learning
10:30 am - Tea Break & Networking
11:00 am - Part 2 – CPF Competencies Learning Continued
12:30 pm - Special Announcements
12:40 pm - Closing Circle
1:00pm - End of Session

About the Session

Facilitation is gaining rapid recognition as a world-wide profession
that plays a key role in engaging stakeholders in jointly shaping the
world we live in. Whether for businesses, governments, and
communities, facilitation is the invisible hand that helps connect
the people in an organisation to its vision and brings about
sustainable actions and results.

How then does one assess the competencies of the facilitator required
for the job? The certification of professional facilitators by
International Association of Facilitation (IAF) is based on a set of
core competencies required for skillful facilitation. Join us on a
discovery journey this Saturday morning to find out how you too can
become certified professional facilitator by learning from the
experiences of those who have made it!

Participants Will Learn

* 6 key competencies of a IAF-CPF
* The Facilitation Certification Process

The Facilitators

7 CPFs and the 1st Singapore's CPF assessor will be sharing with you
their wisdom and they include:

Ng Choon Seng, CPF and CPF assessor.
Jeff Pan, CPF
Jivarani, CPF
Lee Seng Teck, CPF
Chris Holmes, CPF
Lim Hock Ming, CPF
Lim Hongli, CPF

Register at http://www.fns.sg

If you have enquiries, please email our Forum Administrator - Ms.
Emily Ng at emilyng_fns@yahoo.com.sg

Power of Questions Workshop

Keen to enhance your power of questioning?

Why not experience the Power of Questions Workshop?

This workshop is for you if you want to:

• Understand the nature and power of questions
• Know why we do not ask enough questions
• Know what is hindering us from asking questions
• Know what makes a good question
• Know how to ask a good question

Methodology

The workshop employs many adult learning techniques and experiential exercises designed to move individuals to a deeper understanding and application of learning.

Workshop Content

• The nature of Questions
• Forces that hinder us from asking questions
• Discovering Learner and Judger Questions
• Characteristics of a good question
• Creating the questioning mindset
• Questioning Assumptions
• Solving problems through questions

Workshop Details

Date: 6 Apr 09 (Mon)
Time: 830am - 530pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

Investment

Register by 6 Mar 2009

IAF Members - SGD 240nett
Non-IAF Members - SGD 340nett

Register from 6 Mar 2009 onwards

IAF Members & Non-IAF Members - SGD 440nett

Early birds ends on 6 Mar 09!

For more details and to register on-line, go to http://www.fns.sg

Dynamic Facilitation Workshop

Date: 24 Jun 09 (Wed) to 26 Jun 09 (Fri)

Time: 8.30am-5.30pm

Venue: Orchid Country Club, Singapore

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Facilitators, Teachers, Trainers, Supervisors, Managers, HRD & OD Professionals, Coaches, Consultants, Instructors, Mediators, Therapists, Community Leaders, Change Agents, Practitioners, Scholars, Activists, or Entrepreneurs looking to use the most advanced approaches for thinking together creatively and collaboratively and achieve win/win results.

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?

Participants will learn how to help people to:· achieve breakthroughs on difficult, emotional or "impossible" issues· arrive at unanimous results and decisions· empower people to new levels of capability· build trust, respect, and the spirit of community in a group· grow in personal creativity and capabilityDynamic Facilitation provides a transformational experience!

WHAT PEOPLE IN THE KNOW ARE SAYING

"I found a way to facilitate for monumental change. It took me to a place I never knew existed and made me wonder why I had not already been there." Glenn Floyd, Champion International"

A mind-expanding experience of an alternative approach to group discussion and problem-solving." Carol Chetkovich, Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

WHO IS THE WORKSHOP FACILITATOR?

Jim Rough is a consultant, author, speaker and social innovator. He originated Dynamic Facilitation Skills and has been presenting public and private seminars on Dynamic Facilitation since 1990. Jim also originated the Wisdom Council, a new approach to transforming large systems of people. For over twenty years he has been a faculty member of the Creative Problem Solving Institute in Buffalo, N.Y. He is the author of the book, "Society's Breakthrough!: Releasing the Essential Wisdom and Virtue of All the People."

WORKSHOP INVESTMENT

Early Bird Registration (by 31Jan09)

IAF Members S$1,290**

Non IAF Members S$1,590

After Early Bird Deadline (after 31 Jan 09 and by 15 May 09) S$1,790

*Overseas registrants paying by bank draft or TT, please add S$30 for bank charges in Singapore

** IAF membership is US$85/year for developing countries and US$175 for developed countries. Register for membership @ http://www.iaf-world.org/

REGISTRATION PROCESS

Online @ http://www.fns.sg/

Forecast of Events

Please join any of these learning events in Singapore to keep abreast of the developments in Facilitation, Organisational Transformation, & Personal Growth:

1. Forums: bi-monthly...visit www.fns.sg
2. Foundational Facilitation Workshop (FFW): monthly... visit www.fns.sg
3. The World Café & Open Space Technology: watch this space for details later
4. The Four Rooms Of Change: watch this space for details later
5. Dynamic Facilitation Workshop: 24-26 Jun'09
6. Flipchart Graphics: 24 Jul'09
7. Flavours Of Facilitation - Debriefing, Storytelling, & Rapid Learning: 29 May'09
8. Facilitative Project Management: watch this space for details later
9. Facilitating Using Your Strengths: watch this space for details later
10. Power Of Questions: 6 Apr'09
11. The Art Of Facilitating Meetings: 7 Apr'09
12. Facilitative Parenting (Ages 1-12): watch this space for details later
13. Facilitative Parenting (Ages 13-18): watch this space for details later
14. Singapore Facilitators Conference (SFC): 5 & 6 Nov'09

...and many more...watch this space for details later this year...

Organised by: Facilitators Network Singapore